Many, many hours in MSPaint and Movies12...

[Weatherlight]

So I got bored, and fired up MSPaint and Movies12 again.

I make little animated things of Starsiege. I don't know why, its like a hobby. I was waiting for my new computer parts to arrive, reminiscing over previous projects, and came across a folder I use to house the various maimed pixels that I created my animated .gifs from. Out of sheer nostalgia I created a new one.



Has a few bugs to work out. It'll give me something to do. Here's the old ones I've done. You've probably seen them as my avatar at some point:





And a new Gorgon model I am working on:





I am proud to say that all of my mini models are visually correct (as far as you can make an Apoc and a Gorgon correct in 8-bit and 1/1000th the size). If you look very closely at the Knight variants you can see the Earth Crest. I was so very bored as a child.

[Mhaddy]

Holy mother of Petresun... /me loves the new Apoc walking. How did you create these?

[Chrysis]

How did you create these?

Many hours in MSPaint and Movies12, duh. Geez, MD, learn to read.

[Weatherlight]

I begin every animated .gif with a "pallete". Basically I take a good sized MSPaint area and draw the picture out and then play with it. Copy the parts of the picture I will need for the new frame, delete out old pieces, draw in places with the pencil tool. I do everything pixel by pixel.

Heres the example of my Apoc pallete:



I go into MSPaint, copy out the individual finished Apocs, pixel measure where the new frame needs to line up with the old one (I could write a tutorial on this) and save it as a new frame. Fire up Movies12, time the frames correctly, and then save the finished project.

[grey wolf]

So I got bored, and fired up MSPaint and Movies12 again.

get the GIMP, learn to use that, and spare us the MSPaint horrors.

[Weatherlight]

I've got the Macrostudios suite (came with my tablet). I just use this way because it is the way I invented. I also have GIMP installed, just never use it.

[edit] MSPaint horrors?! You saying something about my .gifs?!

[Setsuna]

get the GIMP, learn to use that, and spare us the MSPaint horrors.

I'm pretty sure you've been to Deviant art haven't you grey?
Some people have lots of spare time to do some of the really nice art with MSpaint...
Now I'm not saying that MSpaint is good. Some people just have time to make good art with a crappy program :P

[Mhaddy]

Weatherlight, you're forgetting that MSPaint has the word "Microsoft" in it, therefore, to grey, it's like using Satan himself to paint a portrait.

[Dean]

its not like MSPaint is meant to make brilliant pieces of art, still a good tool tho

[Cray]

ben reed from TWs tutorial.

http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=311378


check out the reed vs. julia from T:V comics he is working in his sig.

[Weatherlight]

Can someone post a screenie? As a 'Sieger I have a general xenophobia built in against TW.

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